Imanol Arias took a flight to Buenos Aires on Tuesday night, just hours after having recognized in the National Court the commission of five tax crimes having defrauded two million euros between 2010 and 2014 that he earned from his work in Tell me how it happened, accepting a sentence of two years and two months in prison – which he will not serve – and a fine that will be between 50% and 60% of the undeclared amount. The accusation requested 27 years in prison. “I want to stop being at the head of this cast,” declared the actor after his agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office.
Arias is not on vacation, but working. What’s more, living. He has been installed for a few months and in fact he had to interrupt them to try to close the case that has threatened his freedom and tarnished his public image. The veteran performer co-stars – along with the Argentine Mercedes Morán– the work Better not to say, which ends its performances at the Paseo La Plaza theater on July 28. It is a comedy in which a long-standing married couple decides for once to speak openly, to try not to have filters, to not hide a single thought.
Arias did something like this when he stated: “If I had to make any reproach to the politicians here, to all those who have existed since then, it is that they have never considered giving me dual nationality, so I can be Argentine once and for all. But I keep fighting for it.” They were paying tribute to him already Susu Pecoranofor the 40 years of the film Camila.
He said it in a joking tone, but the words resonated and he wanted to explain: “There is no reproach. I have never formally asked for it, but I would love to because I want to be an Argentine citizen. “What I can’t do is stay here for five years to get it,” she said. The nation. The actor explains that “in Spain there is a formula for some foreign actors to also become Spanish and pay taxes in the country”, cases, he points out, such as those of Ricardo Darin either Leonardo Sbaraglia. “Mine is not a complaint, mine is a fervent desire, nothing more,” he says.
In an interview with Infobae, confessed to leaving Spain “knowing that the judicial process would be settled very soon.” It was March. “I had planned to spend some time in Buenos Aires for a long time and it seemed ideal, (…) very far from that work grind of two decades and that constant media pressure that I have suffered so much.”
In this conversation with journalist Sebastián Soldano, he already anticipated how his path in court would end: “I was not aware of what happened, but I am responsible. I will return every last cent”. He claims not to have feared ending up in prison, but rather “the idea of getting sick.”
Meanwhile, this Friday the cinemas opened Flaga family comedy in which Arias plays a septuagenarian father.
Her co-star in Tell me Ana Duato He is still on the bench for seven alleged crimes. Anti-corruption demands 32 years in prison and a fine of 1.9 million euros. Infobae He was able to speak with her a few months ago: “They have coerced me and made up chapters; “I feel helpless.”
